One of the saddest statements about the Newtown tragedy is that it was not the first time such a thing had happened. According to the Web site stoptheshooting.org - created by Alex Algard in 2009 to commemorate the victims of the Columbine shooting - there have been 386 school shootings since 1992 and, in most cases, both the shooters and the victims have been under 19 years of age. While it may be possible to ban future access to certain types of weapons and ammunition clips, there are already a huge number of multi-round, rapid-fire weapons in homes across the nation.
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